This is an analysis of the poem That Is A Mystery that begins with:
Why is there such a high crime rate,
In these neighborhoods....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc XdecXXa XfdcXabfX ecXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 01101 10101001 0111 100100 1111010010 1001011001010 110101010010011 1 11100100110 1101 11 111110111 01111101010 11010110001 1 11001010 11101010101100 1100111 111101 111101111001 1101 10 11101 10101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of That Is A Mystery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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